Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed an emergency board-as provided for in the Watson-Parker (1926) railway labor law-to investigate the longstanding wage dispute between 47 western railroads and 70,000 railroad employes. The appointees: Lawyer James R. Garfield (Cleveland), Chief Justice Walter P. Stacey of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Professor Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawyer Chester H. Rowell of Berkeley, Calif., George T. Baker of Davenport, Iowa. Under the law, each investigator receives $100 per day plus expenses. The board must report to the President within 30 days...
...politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That is one of the delusions men have which they must get over. I can say, however, that many men vote as do their wives. . . . It would not matter now if the Labor Party won at the [British] general election, because labor has stopped killing capitalists in England and has acquired a good deal of common sense in dealing with affairs...
...Hapgood's speech is set at 1.40 o'clock and all students of the University are invited to hear her at that time. Mrs. Hapgood is the first woman candidate for the office of governor in this state. She formerly has held a position in the State Labor Department from which she was discharged following her prominence in connection with the defense in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Her husband, Powers' Hapgood '21, is also interested in the Socialist movement and together they have helped in the organization of miners in the Pennsylvania coal fields. Mrs. Hapgood returned to Massachusetts from...
...Industry and Industrial Relations"; John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer, Metal Trades Department A. F. of L., on "The Development of Industrial Relations Through mutual Consent": Professor John R. Commons. Wisconsin University, on "Jurisdictional Disputes"; Professor William M. Leiserson, Antloch College, on "Contributions of Personnel Management to Improvement of American Labor Relations"; Elton Mayo, Associate Professor Industrial Research, in the Business School, on "Maladjustment of the Industrial Worker"; and Professor F. W. Taussig, of the Economics Department on "The Social Situation, its Difficulties, its Possibilities...
Lord Melchett was raised to the peerage last May as a recognition of his contributions to British industry. Sir Alfred was the Minister of Health in the MacDonald Labor ministry and is a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the President of the giant corporation known as the Imperial Chemical Industries. In addition to speaking at Harvard, he will talk to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and will be entertained at a private affair in his honor, during his stay in Boston and Cambridge...